Pollarding Living Fence Posts 

I never knew what this was called. Good use of what you have.

It's best to coppice and pollard in late winter or early spring. I get great regrowth on oaks when cut late February in the Eastern Panhandle of WV.

Enjoyed learning today...

Use nails. 20 years from now that screw wont come out but a nail would.

Awesome, Please revist this tree and look at health of maple and other trees you worked with.

I lived in central america for many years. There was this incredible tree that grew very tall and straight, and you could cut it down, then cut it into 6ft lengths, bury it two feet and use it as posts. But the crazy part is that barely a month or two after putting in the posts, it was sprouting already. After 6 months, it was tall enough that you could cut off another 6 foot post.

I had noticed the board attached to the tree in previous video. As ,you pointed out the old fence that the tree grew around. Have a few that grew around the tree here. Well when a storm bring the tree down so goes the fence! Have one right now that took fence out. With that board attached the fence damage may not be as severe? Thanks for info!

Very few pines coppice well or even survive a pollarding. Shortleaf pine can stump sprout but is not nearly as prolific as hardwoods. I think you can consider the low stub of the maple a coppice too. Pollarding generally consists of inter-nodal cuts on scaffolding branches and not on the main stem. Cool idea for the fence! Glad to see you saving those hickory trees.

And you could fasten the board with wooden dowels instead of nails. If they are not completely round, they will grip better.

Oh, the tree here was also a corner post,took out two fences! Fun of farm life$$$$

New word for me. Not a new technique.

saw nothing about the flashlight?

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I already know that your not going to believe me but on those popular trees, I have cut a few off and then drilled a couple three holes near the sap and down into the meat where cut off. I put willow limbs in those that would fit those holes drilled. Out of the three, at least one or more always grew back from the sprouts. Funny thing was willow gets fairly big where we made out transplant and eventualy it would collapse the smaller stump that didn't get a lot bigger around. I would be bored with something to do and tried lots of stuff that shouldn't work

I don't understand why putting a 3 ft fence up is valuable.